10 easy decorating suggestions
1 Go for a walk and gather evergreen boughs and branches to fill your home with a festive scent. Use them to decorate the mantle, staircase, and front door.
2 Consider a tree adorned only in white lights, or completely bare - marvel at nature's perfection.
3 Group large pinecones in threesomes bound with ribbon. Hang from doorknobs, stair banisters, or in windows.
4 Spread cheer in unexpected places, like the powder room. String white lights around the mirror and hang festive ornaments from the chandelier.
5 Keep a Polaroid handy and snap family and friends as they enter, or posed near the tree. Post pictures on a bulletin board covered with pretty gift-wrap.
6 Add sparkle to the table with rhinestone brooches and clip earrings.
7 Nuts are traditional holiday favourites - use them decoratively. Hang walnut clusters from pretty bows and attach to boughs throughout the house.
8 Let school-age children decorate the tree all by themselves. Offer paper, scissors, glue, felt, popcorn, cranberries and ribbons. Provide help only when asked and make no adjustments to the handiwork. Then revel in their pride.
9 Fill beautiful bowls with oranges, pomegranates, or apples.
10 Create a tree of life - invite friends and family to contribute one ornament each to your tree. Don't worry about "matching" – instead celebrate the differences and bask in how much you are loved.
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